Gregory Shimansky wrote:
On Friday 06 October 2006 18:24 Salikh Zakirov wrote:
I'm actually not. Were there an additional 24 hours in a day.... There
is a whole list of reasons why I'm not a fan of the current system,
including maintainability as well as performance. (Building classlib
takes far less time that DRLVM on windows, for reasons I find utterly
perplexing...)
Well, performance-wise, using 'make' will not make DRLVM build any faster,
mainly because it is hard (if at all possible) to take advantage of
compile-many-cpp-files-by-single-compiler-command mode available
in MSVC and Intel compilers.
It has its own disadvantages like all object files are put in the same place,
so no name duplication can happen. It also doesn't allow fixing compilation
problems in some particular subdirectory because ant requires running only
from the top level for all file tree.
Um. Have you looked at class library lately? Sure, there are root
points, but it's no larger a unit than the DRLVM component.
The only valid reason for ant build system I think is that make requires
cygwin, mingw or some emulation of bash/make/sed environment of fileutils and
binutils on windows.
Hm? I don't need that for classlib....
I completely agree on the maintainability side.
+1
I can easily propose a couple of ways to use make
for building DRLVM (i.e. running C++ compiler and linker). The last
thing I played
with was using shell-script for generating Makefiles using the source
file list.
Well, cool :) We have the ability to learn from and improve upon
classlib how we want to try and handle platforms correctly...
Actually, I do not think I would want to take classlib's make system
as the base, because it does not satisfy two requirements I personally
consider important:
* concentrate the build configuration in one place
If we come to a configure script, it will do this automatically. Still it
doesn't work for windows.
* automatically deduce object files lists by finding .cpp files
And, I would rather add GNU Make (Cygwin or Mingw) to the required build
tools, than maintain two copies of make files.
+1
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